8:20 p.m.

Several police cars were parked in front of the hotel, and Hikaru Mito, a criminal police officer from Changye Prefecture, led a team into the hotel to investigate.

"The identity of the deceased is the popular actor Chizuru Bizen, 30 years old this year, and this time he and his husband Hidehiko Shimoto stayed at this hotel......"

In Bizen Chizuru's room, the police officer in the evidence collection room at the scene reported.

"The estimated time of death is probably between 1:30 and 2:30 p.m., and he died on the spot due to neck force."

Uncle Maori stepped forward and said: "When we came, this room was closed, not only the door was locked with an anti-theft lock, but even the doors and windows were locked from the inside, I think it should be suicide Yes, there was a movie that was originally scheduled to star her last night, and she was suddenly replaced, I am afraid it was a lot of stimulation." ”

Gao Cheng thought about checking the condition of the door lock, and the safety lock fell off the ground with unusual ease, including the screws, and the whole thing fell to the ground, and the metal buckle part also had messy scratch marks.

It is too early to conclude that the secret room is still too early, and it looks like the lock was dismantled, and then the handle was put into the crack of the door from the door to install it, but the screws were fixed from the door crack quite reluctantly, so there were a lot of scratches, and the screws were not tightened.

Other than that......

Takasei's gaze swept over Bizen Chizuru's barefoot corpse, as well as the table used to set up the stage and hang himself.

Forensic personnel found no trace of toes, proving that Bizen Chizuru was carried and hanged.

In other words, this time it is likely to be a homicide disguised as suicide.

But between 1:30 and 2:30, only Uncle Maori, his twin sisters, and him were still in the hotel, and everyone was watching TV in the lobby at the time.

Gao Cheng walked over to the corpse, and the only thing that stood out was a white mark on the skirt, like some kind of delicate powder.

Shouldn't it be the contents of the room, the traces left by the prisoner moving the corpse?

The air conditioner in the room was not turned on, and the time of death judged by the police should be quite accurate, so that the person who stayed in the hotel could never be the murderer, but the rest of the people also had alibi.

Xiaolan and his party went to the summit plateau, and Mr. Jomoto and Miyabe were fishing by the lake at the foot of the mountain, although Jomoto went back to the hotel at half past twelve noon, but left at half past one.

Gao Cheng's eyes turned to the deceased's husband, Seongwon.

And except for the first trip upstairs, I stayed in the hall to eat lunch with my uncle.

In the hotel restaurant, after Zimen Shinobu and Xiaolan went out to pick up the manager of Arimori who stayed on the mountaintop plateau, the police called everyone together for questioning.

Jomoto explained, "I did come back at half past twelve, and although I went to see the situation outside Chizuru's room, she didn't respond when I knocked on the door, so I didn't bother him, and went back to the hall to have dinner with Mr. Mori." ”

"That's right," said Uncle Mori in a deep voice, "since Mr. Jomoto went upstairs to see Miss Chizuru at half past twelve, no one has ever gone upstairs from the stairs of the hall again, which means that the murderer could only enter the hotel through the emergency entrance." ”

"Emergency entrances and exits?"

"The emergency entrances are at the end of the corridors on each floor, and they are all installed with automatic locks, which can be easily opened from the inside, but on the outside you must have a master key." Manager Arimori explained.

"In this case, the murderer is likely to be Mr. Jomoto."

Officer Mito looked directly at Jomoto.

"If you want to turn back to the hotel from the top of the mountain or the lake, you will definitely pass the bridge across the valley on the way, and we have just asked the construction workers by the bridge, and they said that the only car you drove back to the hotel from the bridge at noon was Mr. Jomoto."

"Wait," Cheng Yuan said in a cold sweat, "I'll leave the hotel at half past one, won't I?" And I don't have a master key......"

Mito shook his head: "Even if you don't have a master key, you can still enter the hotel through the emergency entrance, Mr. Castlemoto, when you go upstairs at half past 12 to test Miss Chizuru's condition, you can completely open the door of the emergency entrance from the inside of the hotel, and if you clip something like a small stone, the door will naturally not close automatically."

"Then, pretending to leave the hotel at half past one, but instead entering the emergency entrance from the outside, there is no problem in killing Miss Chizuru and then leaving, and similarly, if you are an accomplice to Mr. Miyabe, it is also very possible to let him hide in the trunk of the car in advance, and take the opportunity to open the emergency entrance and exit to let him enter the hotel and kill people."

"What's that?!"

"You're just a blood-spewing man, Mr. Police!"

"I heard that both of you had an argument with the victim," Mito continued, unmoved, "Mr. Jomoto still lived in a separate room with the victim in front of everyone, while Mr. Miyabe was left to the side by the victim......"

"That's not a big deal, is it? How can you kill someone because of such a thing? Castle Yuan and Miyabe were in a hurry, and they tried their best to refute Mito.

Gao Cheng stood on the side and did not speak, he felt that the officer's reasoning was indeed very likely.

It's just that it may not be true.

Both of them were angry with the deceased Bizen Chizuru, Jomoto and the deceased had a dispute over divorce, and Miyabe was quite distressed because of the movie characters, and the motive for the murder was barely there, but it was a bit far-fetched from the perspective of technique.

It is impossible for a planned murder not to even consider one's own alibi, or even to make oneself the only one without one.

Looking at the appearance of Jomoto and Miyabe, they are not so stupid.

Gao Cheng frowned.

If the two of them are not murderers, they can't say it, because Xiaolan and his party on the other side are on the top of the mountain from morning to night, how can they think that they can't kill Bizen Chizuru from such a distance.

As for outsiders, unless an outsider has backed up the master key, otherwise......

"Huh?" Gao Cheng noticed a photo on the wall of the restaurant and was slightly stunned.

It was a photo of two men and a woman with a glider, the young man in the middle was Manager Arimori, and the girl next to him was the head chef Shinobu Komon.

"In this photo, Manager Arimori and Miss Shinobu are there, right?"

"Yes," Arimori was stunned and said with a smile, "Actually, the two of us used to be good friends of the Glider Flying Association, and we used to fly on the nearby mountaintop plateau, but unfortunately now this side is overdeveloped and can't be like before." ”

Zimen Shinobu lamented: "We haven't glided in 5 years, and even the glider has been kept in the warehouse on the roof to attract dust. ”

"Hang glider, ......"

Gao Cheng sighed, and when he saw the glider, he remembered the thief in white clothes, relying on the hidden glider, if it was that guy, it would be easy to go back to the hotel even if he didn't cross the valley bridge.

Glancing at Yousen, Gao Cheng leaned over to Gray Yuan and whispered, "Is Manager Yousen really staying with you all the time?" ”